Updated: November 2, 2010
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PRIVACY AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
See the
Privacy Statement for disclosures
relating to the collection and use of your information.
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APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACES
Microsoft publishes information on a number of application programming
interfaces ("APIs") on this web site. Microsoft will not assert any of its
patent rights on account of your products calling these APIs in order to receive
services from the Microsoft product that exposes the APIs.
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SOFTWARE
All Software that is made available to download from the web site is the
copyrighted work of Microsoft or its suppliers. Your use of Software is governed
by the terms of the license agreement, if any, that accompanies or is included
with the Software.
If this web site provides any Software (such as javascript) to your computer’s
browser and does not include a license agreement, then Microsoft grants you the
right to use that Software solely to interact through your browser with this web
site.
If any Software contains a copyright notice or similar indication of ownership
that indicates it is owned by someone other than Microsoft, and it includes its
own license agreement, then that Software is licensed to you by that other party
and not Microsoft, and Microsoft grants you no intellectual property rights
(express or implied) with respect to that Software.
If Microsoft makes any Software marked as "sample" or "example" available on
this web site without a license agreement, then it is licensed to you under the
terms of the
Microsoft Limited Public License.
If Microsoft makes any other Software available on this web site without a
license agreement, you may use it solely to design, develop and test your
programs to run on Microsoft products and services.
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CONTENT
All Content is the copyrighted work of Microsoft or its suppliers. Use of the
Content is governed by the terms of the license agreement, if any, that
accompanies or is included with the Content.
If any Content is made available to you on this web site without a license
agreement, then you may make a reasonable number of copies of the Content for
your internal use in designing, developing, and testing your software, products
and services. You must preserve the below copyright notice in all copies of the
Content and ensure that both the copyright notice and this permission notice
appear in those copies.
Accredited educational institutions, such as K-12 schools, universities, private
or public colleges, and state community colleges, may download and reproduce
Content for distribution in the classroom for educational purposes. Publication
or distribution outside the classroom requires express written permission.
Except as provided above in this section, no portion of the web site may be
copied, imitated, published, transmitted, broadcast or distributed, in whole or
in part.
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CONTENT ACCESSIBLE ONLY TO INVITED PARTICIPANTS
Certain portions of this web site are accessible only to users who are invited
to participate, for example as part of a program for using pre-release Software
and providing feedback to Microsoft. All information available in those portions
of this web site or concerning Content or Software available in those portions
of this web site are confidential information of Microsoft. For a period of five
years from the time you accessed this confidential information, you may not
disclose this confidential information to any third party. This restriction will
not apply to any information that is or becomes publicly available without a
breach of this restriction, was lawfully known to the receiver of the
information without an obligation to keep it confidential, is received from
another source who can disclose it lawfully and without an obligation to keep it
confidential, or is independently developed. You may disclose this confidential
information if required to comply with a court order or other government demand
that has the force of law. Before doing so, you must seek the highest level of
protection available and, when possible, give Microsoft enough prior notice to
provide a reasonable chance to seek a protective order.
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NOTICES REGARDING SOFTWARE, CONTENT, APIs, SERVICES AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE
THE SOFTWARE, CONTENT, APIS AND SERVICES, AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE
FROM THIS WEB SITE OR THE SERVICES, ARE WARRANTED, IF AT ALL, ONLY ACCORDING TO
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APIS, SERVICES AND INFORMATION. EXCEPT AS WARRANTED IN THAT SEPARATE AGREEMENT
(IF ANY), MICROSOFT CORPORATION AND ITS RESPECTIVE SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL
WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THE SOFTWARE, CONTENT, APIS, SERVICES
AND INFORMATION, INCLUDING ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY,
WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE
AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT
OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS
ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF SOFTWARE,
CONTENT, APIS, PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR INFORMATION
AVAILABLE FROM THE SERVICES OR THIS WEB SITE.
Microsoft may have patents, patent applications, trademarks, copyrights, or
other intellectual property rights covering subject matter in the Content,
Software or Services. Except as expressly provided in any written license
agreement from Microsoft, the furnishing of Content, Software or Services does
not give you any license to these patents, trademarks, copyrights, or other
intellectual property.
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RESERVATION OF RIGHTS
Microsoft reserves all rights not expressly granted under these terms of use,
and no other rights are granted under these terms of use by implication or
estoppel or otherwise.
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MEMBER ACCOUNT, PASSWORD, AND SECURITY
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registration process by providing us with current, complete and accurate
information as prompted by the applicable registration form. You are entirely
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your password and account.
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under your account. You agree to notify Microsoft immediately of any
unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security. Microsoft will
not be liable for any loss that you may incur as a result of someone else using
your password or account, either with or without your knowledge. However, you
could be held liable for losses incurred by Microsoft or another party due to
someone else using your account or password. You may not use anyone else's
account without the permission of the account holder.
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PROHIBITED USE OF SERVICES
For any communities on this web site, you must follow the Microsoft Communities
Rules of Conduct.
As a condition of your use of Services, you will not use them for any purpose
that is unlawful or prohibited by these terms, conditions, and notices. You may
not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or
impair any Microsoft server, or the network(s) connected to any Microsoft
server, or interfere with any other party's use and enjoyment of any Services.
You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to any Services, other accounts,
computer systems or networks connected to any Microsoft server or to any of the
Services, through hacking, password mining or any other means. You may not
obtain or attempt to obtain any materials or information through any means not
intentionally made available through the Services.
The Services may contain e-mail services, bulletin board services, chat areas,
forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, photo albums, file cabinets
and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to
communicate with others ("Communication Services"). You agree to use the
Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that
are proper and, when applicable, related to the particular Communication
Service. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using
the Communication Services, you will not:
- Use the Communication Services in connection with surveys, contests, pyramid
schemes, chain letters, junk email, spamming or any duplicative or unsolicited
messages (commercial or otherwise).
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others.
- Publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane,
defamatory, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information.
- Upload, or otherwise make available, files that contain images, photographs,
software or other material protected by intellectual property laws, including,
by way of example, and not as limitation, copyright or trademark laws (or by
rights of privacy or publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or
have received all necessary consent to do the same.
- Use any material or information, including images or photographs, which are made
available through the Services in any manner that infringes any copyright,
trademark, patent, trade secret, or other proprietary right of any party.
- Upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots,
corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the
operation of another's computer or property of another.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business
purpose, unless such Communication Services specifically allows such messages.
- Download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you
know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally reproduced, displayed,
performed, and/or distributed in such manner.
- Falsify or delete any copyright management information, such as author
attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or
labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file
that is uploaded.
- Restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services.
- Violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any
particular Communication Service.
- Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses.
- Violate any applicable laws or regulations.
- Create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
- Use, download or otherwise copy, or provide (whether or not for a fee) to a
person or entity any directory of users of the Services or other user or usage
information or any portion thereof.
Microsoft has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However,
Microsoft reserves the right to review materials posted to the Communication
Services and to remove any materials in its sole discretion.
Microsoft reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as
Microsoft deems necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any
information or materials, in whole or in part, in Microsoft's sole discretion.
Always use caution when giving out any personally identifiable information about
yourself or your children and business sensitive information in any
Communication Services. Microsoft does not control or endorse the content,
messages or information found in any Communication Services, and Microsoft
specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services.
Managers and hosts are not authorized Microsoft spokespersons, and their views
do not necessarily reflect those of Microsoft.
Materials uploaded to the Communication Services may be subject to posted
limitations on usage, reproduction or dissemination. You are responsible for
adhering to such limitations if you download the materials.
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SUBMISSIONS PROVIDED TO THIS WEB SITE
Microsoft does not claim ownership of code, content, comments, feedback,
suggestions, information or materials that you provide via this web site or any
Services ("Submission"). However, by providing a Submission, you are irrevocably
granting Microsoft and its affiliated companies the right to make, use, modify,
distribute and otherwise commercialize the Submission in any way and for any
purpose (including by granting the general public the right to use your
Submissions in accordance with this web site's Terms of Use, which may change
over time), and the right to publish your name, city of residence, and e-mail
address in connection with your Submission. These rights are granted under all
applicable intellectual property rights you own or control.
No compensation will be paid with respect to the use of your Submissions.
Microsoft is under no obligation to post or use any Submission, and Microsoft
may remove any Submission at any time.
By providing a Submission you warrant that you own or otherwise control all of
the rights to your Submission and that your Submission is not subject to any
rights of a third party (including any personality or publicity rights of any
person).
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TERMINATION
Microsoft reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the
Services at any time, without notice, for any reason whatsoever.
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NOTICES AND PROCEDURE FOR MAKING CLAIMS OF COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
Pursuant to Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c)(2), notifications of
claimed copyright infringement should be sent to Service Provider's Designated
Agent. ALL INQUIRIES NOT RELEVANT TO THE FOLLOWING PROCEDURE WILL NOT RECEIVE A
RESPONSE.
See
Notice and Procedure for Making Claims of Copyright Infringement.
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AND (iv) MICROSOFT SHALL NOT BE LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY MATERIALS OR
SERVICES OFFERED BY THIRD PARTIES.
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MICROSOFT LIMITED PUBLIC LICENSE
This license governs use of code marked as "sample" or "example" available on
this web site without a license agreement, as provided under the section above
titled "NOTICE SPECIFIC TO SOFTWARE AVAILABLE ON THIS WEB SITE." If you use such
code (the "software"), you accept this license. If you do not accept the
license, do not use the software.
1. Definitions
The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution"
have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.
A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software.
A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license.
"Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.
2. Grant of Rights
(A) Copyright Grant - Subject to the terms of this license, including the
license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a
non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its
contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its
contribution or any derivative works that you create.
(B) Patent Grant - Subject to the terms of this license, including the license
conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive,
worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make,
have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its
contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the
software.
3. Conditions and Limitations
(A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.
(B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you
claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor
to the software ends automatically.
(C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all
copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the
software.
(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may
do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with
your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or
object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this
license.
(E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The
contributors give no express warranties, guarantees or conditions. You may have
additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot
change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude
the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and
non-infringement.
(F) Platform Limitation - The licenses granted in sections 2(A) and 2(B) extend
only to the software or derivative works that you create that run on a Microsoft
Windows operating system product.
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